Every IT shop is trying to figure out how to save money and decrease
risks by implementing a cloud environment — beginning with the right
platform. IBM® System z® has had virtualization for years, and with new
tools, it can support the provisioning, orchestration and monitoring
necessary to successfully gain the value of cloud on a System z
platform.

Have you considered implementing cloud on System z? Join us for a
complimentary teleconference and learn how IBM solutions give you the
capability to monitor, provision and automate activities needed for
cloud service management and how IBM is enhancing cloud on System z
going forward. We’ll show you how to create and reuse images automated
with pre-built workload patterns, and later, automatically de-provision.
This teleconference includes a discussion of the various new components
available to support a cloud environment on System z, including Cloud
Ready for System z — and image-based deployment for cloud service
delivery and management—and Tivoli® Provisioning Manager. You’ll come
away with a good understanding of why System z is a great cloud
platform.

Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer
session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the
event.

Business requirements are stretching many IT shops to the limit with demands for quickly adding and managing new applications and services — even with fewer staff to monitor and manage the overall System z® environment. If you need to save hardware, software and staffing resources, start by making better use of System z.

Join us for this complimentary teleconference and learn how Tivoli® System Automation for z/OS® can help you reduce overall costs and improve system availability. Recent enhancements have expanded the use of policy-based automation, and eliminated the need for manual set-up steps during policy customization by auto-discovering theparameters that are needed to set policies. It can also detect problems quickly, give you valuable topology views and support for zEnterprise®, including the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension. You’ll learn how the enhancements to System Automation for z/OS can help you increase enterprise availability and productivity, while reducing costs..

Join us after the teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.

Looking forward to four days of top-notch education, Pulse 2012 has a large number of System z focused activities occurring to help increase visibility and improve the automation of your IT
environment.

This
formerly standalone event will be held in conjunction with Pulse, with
its own dedicated track featuring 23 sessions providing the knowledge to
help you protect your business and IT services through end-to-end high
availability and automation.

Almost
every large business expects 24/7 system network availability. But “up
and running” is meaningless if you’re not meeting your service level
agreements or expected quality of service. On top of these requirements
is the never-ending demand for improved productivity across the
enterprise. Are you working on increasing system availability while
decreasing costs? Is IT operations focused on reducing risks and
increasing business flexibility?

Join us for this complimentary
teleconference and learn how you can better monitor, manage and automate
your z/OS® environment to maximize overall system availability — and
deliver on these requirements. By using Tivoli® System Automation,
NetView® and OMEGAMON® together to improve overall visibility, control
and automation you can increase availability, improve utilization of
your networks, and support new business opportunities faster. And when
you give operators and administrators domain-specific views of the
health of network and system resources, you can solve problems faster
and use resources more effectively.

Join us after the
teleconference for a live question-and-answer session. The
teleconference will also be available for replay after the event.

Developed for: IT and enterprise architects; IT managers; system analysts; operations managers

Technical Level: Intermediate

Many
solutions today have services and applications that execute on
different hardware and software. This makes it difficult to control and
automate each component to improve availability, reduce overall solution
risk and decrease operations workload. Are you trying to manage both
distributed and mainframe environments as one? Does the requirement for
24/7 availability keep you up at night?

Join us for this
complimentary teleconference to learn how IBM Tivoli® System Automation
can improve your overall enterprise availability and keep critical
applications available across multiple operating systems and hardware
platforms. Tivoli System Automation is a policy-based, self-healing and
high-availability solution. It maximizes efficiency and availability of
critical systems and applications with end-to-end integration across
heterogeneous environments.

Had a great week at the SHARE Conference in Orlando. SHARE is all about mainframe hardware and software. We had a number of excellent Tivoli z/OS sessions. There were 4 NetView sessions: An introductory session on Monday by Larry Green on the new NetView V6.1. Couple of technical sessions and Thursday had a session with Dale Carter from Bank of America and Tom Howe from NetView Development on BofA usage of the new Canzlog capability in V6.1. Very well attended session for early Thursday morning. A number of attendees thought Canzlog would change how they dealt with their current logs going forward. It is a very well received new function in NetView V6.1. Tivoli presented on Monday at a full house Lunch and Learn on Problem Determination and Analysis. There was also an excellent session by Flora Tremantaon on the updated Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.6 release that just came out. Focused on Workload Automation and Batch Modernization.

The SHARE Technical Exchange was open Monday and Tuesday nights and during Lunch on Wednesday. Tivoli was well represented with 6 peds of the 15 in the IBM area. There was also a working zEnterprise that a number of peds were directly connected to. The NetView, Application Management, Storage and Security peds were very busy the whole time. Lots of great conversations with many customers about the value of Tivoli software. SHARE is a great place to find out what is new for z/OS hardware and software. SHARE attendees understand the continuing importance and value of mainframe environments. The next SHARE is in Atlanta in March. Presentations are available on the SHARE website: http://share.confex.com/share/117/webprogram/start.html

IBM Tivoli Workload
Scheduler for z/OS V8.6
is the premier enterprise workload automation product for System z® and
end-to-end environments. It automates the planning, processing, and analysis
of batch and event-based enterprise production workloads. This helps improve
IT operation efficiency and reduce manual labor by maximizing throughput of
work across the enterprise.

Tivoli Workload
Scheduler for z/OS is
part of an integrated suite of scheduling products that enables systematic
enterprise-wide workload processing for both batch and event-based (real-time)
workloads across applications and platforms.

In an end-to-end solution, the distributed portion of the network can span
over a multilevel topology of fault-tolerant agents (agents capable to continue
scheduling even in the absence of the link to the Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS server).

The barriers to running a more efficient data center are common to most enterprises. Slow or failed service delivery due to performance issues, for example, increases risks and costs in the form of lost business, lost customers and less market value. Reducing the complexity of your environment can help you fully utilize assets, and become more responsive to changing business conditions and demands — whether it’s a move to cloud or any move toward greater efficiency — thereby reducing costs. But if you’re looking for true alignment between IT operations and business priorities, it’s going to require that and more.

How can you ensure that the environment where your critical business applications run is always available for business? Can you extend the operational management of highly available environment to include application components that span platforms? Overcoming barriers associated with disparate systems, teams and information sources, can answer these questions in a way that is flexible, dynamic and systematic.

Join us for a one-day, complimentary seminar, Optimizing Your IT Infrastructure, and learn more about platform management synergies.

Seminar topics include:Extending mainframe-like governance and qualities of service to specialized application optimizers and select blade serversManaging Tivoli OMEGAMON® performance metrics for the new z/OS operating systemUsing IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager to define your own automation policy for an application running in a simulated multi-cluster environment.The role of Integrated Service Management on System z in cloud computing

Overall, these sessions will show you how IBM Tivoli’s OMEGAMON XE family of products and integrated solutions can save time, money and outages by understanding the performance of System z software products, automating management of them, and giving you an enterprise view of IT operations.

Developed for: Operations managers, infrastructure architects and system programmers

AgendaContinental breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m.08:40 a.m. - z/OS Version 1 Release 12 and more09:50 a.m. - Technology update - zEnterprise servers and storage11:00 a.m. - Consolidation and virtualization update with Linux and z/VM on System z12:00 p.m. - Lunch01:00 p.m. - Integrated service management can improve overall visibility into your zEnterprise using OMEGAMON XE for z/OS02:10 p.m. - Increase availability and productivity in your System z environment with integrated service management automation03:20 p.m. - Moving to cloud? Integrated service management on System z will be a critical success factor04:20 p.m. - Close and next steps

IBM today announces a new version of the industry leading
Network Management for System zNetView product.NetView provides the automation, network and
systems management that System z customers require within their expanding
network requirements today.As network requirements, such as adding mobile devices, increases the need for a complete network management solution will be increasinglyimportant.NetView provides the
visibility, control and automation across SNA and TCP/IP networks necessary for
IT to deal with all the changing network and system requirements that exist on
System z.In addition, NetView provides
extensive system and network automation support.

High Availability and
Automation for improving overall system availability.

Faster
Problem Solving with network and system log browsing supplied by the new Canzlog
feature.

Enhanced automation with new consolidated message logging using Canzlog.

Improved problem diagnostics and management with new packet tracking and analysis.

Extended enterprise resiliency for continuous availability and business continuity with
GDPS Active/Active

NetView is a key component of IBM's Integrated Service Management
on System z, and works with a number of other key products, including Tivoli
System Automation, OMEGAMON for Mainframe Networks and the new GDPS Active/Active
support. This announcement will help IBM customers gain improved system availability, enhanced productivity and easier problem management.

ASAP 2011 – This year, ASAP - the 23rd Annual Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS) User Education Seminar - was held in a sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on April 11-13, 2011. A large number of TWS Customers attended. 50 different companies coming from all over the world, joined together and met with IBM experts, to exchange knowledge around TWS, and to share ideas, best practices, issues and solutions. The ASAP was kicked off by Kendall Lock, Director of the IBM Rome Lab, who presented, with pleasant humor and great efficiency, the "key ingredients " of how to apply Workload Automation in ways in which business can be expanded and streamlined. "A Smart Workload Automation solution" he said" in the hands of Smart People, at the right maturity level, can help you getting relevance in the organization within a strategy for continued success at your business". The four-day conference continued with nearly 60 technical sessions, plus "birds of a feather " sessions, held by IBM Rome Software Development Lab, IBM Subject Matter Experts, Customers, and Business Partners. The sessions were organized into four tracks, focused on different areas of interest (mainframe, distributed systems, end-to-end solutions, and sponsors sessions) to provide topics addressed to all the different attendees. Also, sessions were targeted to all levels of experience, spanning from beginners to advanced experts. The opportunity to get a TWS certification was given as well, and had a lot of great participation. Finally, among sessions and informal exchange of information, we didn’t miss the opportunity to enjoy the place, and the warm evenings in Fort Lauderdale, in nice restaurants along the beach or in a travel boat kindly offered by a Sponsor. Submitted by Flora Tramontano.